Due to my husband’s medical disability, we are beginning to plan for an eventual downsizing/out of state relocation and need to start the process of rehoming our flock. The chickens are a year old. We have 9 Wellsummer hens and 5 French Black Copper Maran hens. We also have three gorgeous...
My Wellsummer is 3 years old and has been a great layer of dark brown eggs with deep red speckles. This year, after her two month winter break her eggs have only faint speckles. Is this age related? Is there something I can do to encourage the deeper dots?
Hi, we’ve been enjoying the beautiful speckled eggs our Wellsummer (Ginger) has been laying since about October; however, recently the eggs have been a slightly lighter brown, with no speckles (kind of hard to see in the pics, but on the left are older eggs from a couple of weeks ago and the...
My new 2018 Murray McMurray hatchery catalog says that Wellsummers have
"a docile temperament". Does anyone know if that's true?
Do you all know of any standard breeds that tend to have a docile rooster?
I need to order new chicks in the spring, and I want a rooster that is most likely...